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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Philosophical Foundations | |
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| Biblical Justification for Dominating Nature | |
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| Seeking New Land | |
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| Rational Nature of the World | |
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| Social and Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The 1400s through the 1700s: Inhabiting a New Land | |
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| Native Americans as Prototypical Environmentalists | |
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| Early Colonial Environmental Attitudes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Early 1800s: Destroying the Frontier | |
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| Manifest Destiny | |
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| Domesticating the Wilderness | |
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| Final Conquest of the West | |
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| Renewed Interest in Nature | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Late 1880s: Building an Industrial Nation | |
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| Population Growth and Consumerism | |
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| Devastating the Land | |
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| Overconsumption of Natural Resources | |
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| Voices for Nature | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The 1900s through the 1930s: Beginnings of the Conservation Movement | |
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| Conversation during the Progressive Era | |
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| Environmental Decay during the Roaring Twenties | |
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| Conversation Policies under Roosevelt's New Deal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The 1940s through the 1960s: Prelude to the Green Decade | |
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| Environmental Costs of Scientific Progress in the 1940s | |
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| The Conservative 1950s | |
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| Emerging Voices in the 1960s | |
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| The Environmental Movement Begins to Mobilize | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The 1970s: The Conservation Movement Matures | |
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| Mainstream and Alternative Environmental Groups | |
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| New Environmental Legislation | |
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| Jimmy Carter and the Envirocrats | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The 1980s: A Conservative Backlash | |
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| Ronald Reagan's Environmental Deregulation | |
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| George Bush as the Environmental President | |
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| Employment versus the Environment | |
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| Environmental Groups Actions and Reactions | |
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| International Environmental Concern | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Early 1990s: Government Retrenchment and Public Apathy | |
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| Environmental Optimism under Bill Clinton | |
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| A Growing Countermovement | |
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| A Green Revival | |
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| A Conservative Resurgence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Late 1990s: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement | |
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| Clinton's Moderate Environmental Approach | |
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| Growing Public Concern | |
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| New Activism | |
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| Congressional Action and Inaction | |
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| The Global Future of the Environmental Movement | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Environmental Movement in the Post 9/11 World | |
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| The Presidential Election of 2000 | |
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| The Post 9/11 World | |
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| Bush and Changing Regulations | |
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| The Debate and the Gamble | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography and Suggested Readings | |
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| Index | |